G.G.’s Comments (group member since Sep 03, 2013)

G.G.’s comments from the Bisky's Twitterling's Scribbles! group.

Too many to list. I'd say all of them. I'm sure you'd name one and I'd answer I haven't read it. ;)
Anyway, I'll go with hmm Harry Potter for now.

@Karey Those movies producers have to take their ideas from real facts they heard from people, so I'm not really surprised.
What a terrifying event for such a young kid. No wonder your sub conscience tried to make you forget...until you saw that movie.

LOL yeah I love the picture too!
And you're right. One day maybe everything will be explained and the fun will fade away. I still prefer to believe we saw the real thing, true or false. Let me believe in the magician and the rabbit! Pretty please! :P

@Jim, all I can say is that we had practically the same experience, and I stick to what I said: It was something alien. (Check message number 13)
The thing is, someone else I've met online told me the same thing and we didn't live at all in the same area. My encounters (more than once) were near Montreal Quebec, and hers were somewhere in the western part of the US if I remember right.

BTW guys, I may not reply to all of your posts but I do read them so keep them coming. I LOVE IT!

Jim, there's a thread especially for UFO (called UFO) if you feel like sharing?!?! :)

Jim wrote: "Yeah that sounds better. I did change it around a bit because it sounded too cookie cutter. I might work her name into it as well instead of just her>.

Thanks G.G. :)"

Bah I just turned your own sentences around. Following his example was too much of a cookie cutter. And yes, I agree, you should definitely add her name in there.

Yeah, I love J. David's blurb on the man trying to write a blurb. That was brilliant!

I checked the link. It sounds real cool the way he puts it but his lines all fit well before he even put it together.

As for your blurb, whatever order they said to put it, I'd still have to begin the sentence with the end.

EX:

When her lovers are kidnapped by creatures called umbra, a young woman's world collides with the Wards, a secret order of protectors.

Her only hope in saving their lives?

To become a Ward of the South and to work with a reclusive bum.

Congratulations!
She looks so tiny!

Javoniel wrote: "Also one of my favorite smells is the smell of a new book :) Yeah weird me..."

If that's weird I think we're all weird then. Personally, I find weird someone who does NOT love the smell of new books! Barnes and Nobles has to be my favorite store. It has everything to please my nose: book smell AND coffee smell. :)

Hello and welcome aboard Javoniel. I think many people are like you and buy more books than they read. That's what book lovers do. :) Good luck with your two novels!

Hello Thomas, welcome aboard. Good luck with your novel.

Mike wrote: "I'm Mike. I began writing mystery novels in 2012 and have self-published five to date."

Hełlo Mike, welcome aboard!

I hate writing blurbs too. It's always a challenge to dig out what needs to be in it and what needs to be a surprise.
Personally, I like airy blurb. If someone presents me a huge block, I'll read the first few sentences and unless they are what I am exactly looking for I'll go NEXT.
I also hate the never ending blurbs with too much details. It makes me wonder if the three hundred pages of the book will be mostly the author mumbling, not knowing exactly what he or she wants to say.
While writing a blurb for a first book or a stand alone is hard, I hate writing for a sequel even more. Does it need a recap? If so, won't it give too much of the first for those who haven't read it? Nightmare!

Hello Everette, welcome aboard. I wish I had the answer you seek but sadly I don't. Good luck ditch your book.

My birth language is French Canadian. After spending the last fourteen years in the US, even if my English isn't perfect, I believe it's still better than my French. It never crossed my mind to write in any other language than English. However, I cheated. I used first person POV from an alien (outer space) whose birth language isn't English. So any small silly mistakes could pass for his.

The problem you have with not finding the right words, I have it too, but I do have it also when I speak French with my family. My husband who was born in the USA and so is American English native seems to have the problem too because he never can find the word I'm looking for either. :>

I think the story loses a bit of its flavor when translated unless the translator is a professional.

Thanks guys :)

@Brittany Is that from a sequel of The Caplysis Project?
Either way, I sense another sci-fi coming soon. Cool!

I chose self pub for two reasons.
First one: I'm not brave enough.
Second one: I lack confidence.

One needs both to query so I bow low to anyone who does. I could never do it.

Thanks guys!
Indeed, now that you mention it, that'd make a great epilogue... Hmm *opens windows office, cracks her knuckles and...stares at the blank page.*
Oh well, it'll come. ;)

It's more than a line, it's a short story from an on-line writing course. Sorry for the length. (331 WC)

It didn't take long for nature to take over. Once the last human died, and no one was left to maintain the hideous buildings, the trees soon reclaimed their habitats. Only vestiges of Earth's past remained. Old skeletons of constructions now melted gracefully with the décor and offered shelters for the smaller critters.

We didn't take great pleasure in accomplishing this task, but our job was done. Humans wouldn't destroy anything anymore. They had their chance and yet refused to take it, oblivious to their incoming doom.

Too bad, but something had to be done.

Millions of years ago, we risked everything to come here. Finding the right meteors hadn't been easy. Many of us died before we reached our destination where we lived peacefully until the Homo sapiens appeared. At first, we were happy to share our home, yet they ignored us, even killed many of us. So we decided to keep them in check by making their lives miserable. But something happened. Something we didn't foresee. Unlike the dinosaurs, they multiplied rapidly and soon they were billions. With each generation, they needed more room, devastating acres upon acres of land, thus leaving creatures big and small without shelters.

We couldn't let this barbaric species go on and destroy all life on the planet especially now that they had discovered space travel. Soon their detrimental habits would have spread to other worlds and more would have suffered. More would have died. In the end, getting rid of them was a small price to pay.

You see; humans made a fatal mistake when they discounted us. They never saw us coming. We looked harmless. But naïve we were not. We understood strength was in numbers. We suffocated some, poisoned, or starved others until none were left. Together we prevailed and proved them wrong.

Pollution and mindless killing are now a thing of the past. We, the flora of Earth, took our world back and we intend to keep it. So invaders…beware!

Hello and welcome aboard Aric. Love the name btw.